The Easter Cuckoo

By Jakob Hender

“We need to find a way to stop the cuckoo laying her eggs in our nests,” the dunnock complained.
“There’s no room for my eggs,” the wagtail added.
“The baby eats all the food I can find and my babies have nothing,” the pipit cried.
“It takes both of us to keep the babies fed,” the sparrowhawk said.
“I can’t even tell which babies are mine any more,” the prinia fidgeted.

The cuckoo is notorious for laying her eggs in the nests of other birds, and letting them raise her babies.
The other birds have had enough. They have come up with a plan to teach the cuckoo a lesson – and the legend of the Easter Cuckoo begins.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Storm Cloud Publishing
• Release date: May 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781925285505

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The Easter Cuckoo

Jakob Hender

Illustrated by Oliver Anders

The Easter Cuckoo

Text copyright (c) Jakob Hender (2021)

Illustrations copyright (c) Oliver Anders (2021)

Published by Storm Cloud Publishing (2021)

ISBN: 978-1-925285-50-5 Smashwords Edition

This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism, review or as otherwise permitted under the Copyright Act Australia 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be made through the publisher.

Junior Fiction: Non religious Easter stories, Bird stories, Woodland adventures, Modern fairy tales, Bedtime stories

Suitable to read to children of all ages

Read alone ages 7 – 10 years

Contents

Chapter one

Chapter two

Chapter three

Chapter four

Chapter five

Chapter six

About the Author

About the Illustrator

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Chapter one

Every spring when the weather began to warm, the birds would return from the south to the woodlands of the north. The trees began to flower and sprout new growth and the wild grasses grew tall and strong. Songbirds sang their sweet tunes through the woodlands as they set about building nests to lay their eggs and raise